Sunday 15 November 2020

CAN HARRY STEAL THE MOMENT?

The might of Belgium tonight! Don't laugh they top our UEFA Nations League AG2 group. 

So far, England has beaten Iceland 0-1 away, drawn with Denmark 0-0 away, beaten Belgium at home 2-1, lost to Denmark at home 0-1 in their group league. 

Belgium top the league, Denmark 2nd and England 3rd. Iceland played 4 lost 4 are 4th. In the 2018 Russia World Cup England lost 2-0 to Belgium in a play off for third place. Earlier they lost 0-1 to Belgium in their Group Stage. The other two countries in the group? Tunisia (2-1: Kane 2) and Panama (6-1: Kane 3)...TOUGH!

The highlight today  is Harry Kane's 50th cap, an achievement described as "absolutely phenomenal" by Gareth. The game is being played at the King Power Stadium (Leuven) not Leicester. Kane has 32 goals in 49 appearances with only Jimmy Greaves better than him with 43 international goals.

(other England top goalscorers include Rooney 53, Charlton R 49, Lineker 48, Owen 44)

Greaves played 5130 minutes for England over 57 games = a goal every 117 minutes.                      Kane so far = 118.

Greaves' last cap was won at the age of 27 years and 3 months, a month older than Kane now. His injury affected his final period of international football and of course he missed out in the 1966 World Cup, his last game in that tournament First Round on 20th July v France-a 2-0 win, with both goals from Roger Hunt. Greaves had scored 4 in a World Cup warm up v Norway on June 29th in Oslo, Greaves played in the next 4 games before the French game scoring no goals. Hunt, Hurst and Charlton left no place for him as they combined through to the famous final v West Germany. 

In 1967/8 Greaves had scored 23 goals in 39 league games but as far as Ramsey was concerned, Greaves was history.

Kane is scoring at a better rate that Lineker, Rooney and Bobby Charlton. Kane has scored 200 goals for Spurs in 300 games (including 150 games  in PL), a remarkable return...he is also hoping for a remarkable return of his £100,000 Range Rover, stolen from his Chingford home recently.

Dele Alli and Vertonghen have both been targetted by "armed raiders" recently. Dangerous place Essex.


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